Work in Progress: Earth Defence Directorate Starfighter.
I found a toy Buck Rogers Starfighter in my local old-comics-and-toys shop a while back. This was a gimme at £15 (even if the pop-out wings don’t really anymore and the little plastic missiles were missing), so I’ve been bashing on giving the old girl a bit of a BSG-style makeover. There’s probably about six to eight hours of “kept” modelling in this so far. I haven’t really kept track of “chucked” modelling, but it’s probably only about 2 hours so far.
For those history buffs amongst us, this was actually Ralph McQuarry’s original design for the Colonial Viper in the 1970s Battlestar Galactica. So, in keeping with this more crunchy, gritty day and age, I imagine I’ll be punching reaction-control thruster exhausts into the pylons before too long. Hum. I think this thing’s Ficton Reactor must use a McQuarry Converter. Yeah, that sounds about right. 
Gotta keep it real, right?